LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SKATERAW, HADDINGTONSHIRE.—The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat Station at Skateraw, in order to strengthen the Life-boat Service on the coast of Haddingtonshire.
This was found to be...
Category: Articles
R.A.F.High-Speed Launch No. 124
JANUARY 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 9.10 P.M. the naval officer in charge telephoned that R.A.F. high-speed launch No. 124 was somewhere off Hartlepool.
Her compass had gone wrong and she could not...
Maria Somes, of London
Soon after midnight on the 9th May, the Lucy life-boat again went out, in reply to signals of distress from a large vessel which had struck on Whitby rocks. Several cobles had previously attempted to get the vessel off the rocks, but the sea...
News
Landmark ruling - is it a ship?The personal watercraft (PWC), often known by the trade name of jetski, is an increasingly popular mode of water transport. Partly resembling a motorbike, a PWC is ridden in a similar way and comes with the...
Category: Articles
Failsafe Part 1- Capsizing and Righting By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
ON APRIL 10, 1983, Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, searching for missing divers at the southern end of Start Bay, was hit by mountainous seas in a force 11 storm.
The first of two tremendous seas, a...
Category: Articles
Annual Report. 1910
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, The'Eight Honourable the EARL OF CREWE, K.G., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 6th January two members of the Life- boat's crew were out fishing in one of the small boats belonging to Skegness, when a north-westerly gale sprang up, and shortly after three o'clock in the after-...
Category: Services
Stingray and Sultan
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 1.4 p.m. on ist September, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two flares had been burned by the m.f.v. Stingray. There was a fresh north-westerly breeze with a rough sea. It was almost high water. The...
Suzanna D.
Double call-out SHOREHAM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Newhaven lifeboat at 1634 on Sunday January 22,1984, that a trawler, Suzanna D had broadcast a MAYDAY. She was swamped and sinking two miles south west of Beachy Head and...
A Rowing Boat (8)
JULY 14TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. Two boys had drifted away in a rowing boat off Goodrington, but were towed in by a motor boat. - Rewards, £3 11s. 6d..